Dead Gale Week

March 15-21. Prompt list is pinned. https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Gale_Must_Die

[galemustdie]

Gale Must Die.

Celebrate the Ides of March by murdering BG3's hubristic but doe-eyed wizard in the very first ever Dead Gale Week.

Open to any or no pairings, the only requirement is that your fanfic or fanart kills Gale Dekarios. The worse you treat him, the better.

Two Rules:

Gale must die.

Don't use AI.

Q&A:

Who's running this thing?

Direct your complaints to patheticfangirl.

Do you hate Gale?

Not at all. If I hated Gale, I wouldn't have written 75 fics about him (and counting). We always hurt the blorbos we love most.

This seems mean.

Gale isn't real. Some of us like reading about horrible things happening to him. If you don't like it, don't read it.

Can Gale come back to life in my fic? Can he be undead?

Sure, as long as he dies first.

What does [Prompt] mean?

Prompts are open to interpretation.

Weave Death could involve Gale being bested by another mage, one of his own spells going wrong, or the end of the Weave itself. God Is Dead doesn't specify which god. Came Back Wrong could imply zombie Gale, or it could mean a foolish adventurer followed Gale's flute instructions wrong and resurrected him as a goat.

Do fics need to be in Gale POV?

Nope! Feel free to take the POV of the person or entity killing him, or of some poor soul forced to watch him die. Make his lover experience the ultimate angst. Write a letter to Morena explaining how her son was killed. The possibilities are endless.

Are there genre requirements?

Not at all. While the spirit of the event lends itself to horror and whump, you're welcome to write fics in any genre so long as Gale dies.

Can other characters die too?

You can commit fictional genocide if you want. Just make sure Gale goes with everyone else and put some focus on him.

How do I participate?

AO3 Collection Link (Gale_Must_Die)

If posting on other social media sites, use #GaleMustDie.

Text version of the prompts under the cut.

Dead Gale Week Prompts:

Day 1: Dismemberment, Orb Torture

Day 2: Eaten, Poisoned

Day 3: Sussur, Weave Death

Day 4: Kidnapped, Death by Snu Snu (Sex)

Day 5: Cursed, Rotting

Day 6: God Is Dead, Memory Erasure

Day 7: Portals, Came Back Wrong

[ittybittyjuicebox]

Fan art for @robindaffodil or their fanfic - https://archiveofourown.org/works/81629021

Gale is a sad clown, and then he dies.

I really wanted to try drawing a mirror reflection after reading the fic. Clown paint used is from the game, but in the colors of Tara's collar. This is post-orb

[daisy-dewdrop-fluffington]

Hi guys I wrote the first chapter of my first fic. Dead dove style smut & angst, mind the tags.

It’s not much but it’s honest work. 😅

archiveofourown.org/works/81509941

[sodapopseagull]

In Case of Death

Bloodweave // M // 4.2k words

There was a time when Gale of Waterdeep could level a city with but a wave of his hand.

There was a time when Gale of Waterdeep could collapse mountains, alter the tides, tear open portals easy as blinking.

Now, it seemed, was the time for Gale of Waterdeep to cast the clumsiest Thunderwave this side of the Chionthar and be gutted for it.

AKA The Nine Lives of Gale Dekarios - written in celebration of Dead Gale Week with a little Spell Rot treato to suit Day 5

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Forgot to share my dead Gale fic here! We journey through eight deaths and nine revivals of Mr. Gale of Waterdeep ehehehe

[archduchessgortash]

Here's Part 2 of my Gale Must Die (which is now everyone must die, along with ALL of the grieving)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Read the tags & warnings.

(And be prepared to read the death of your blorbo.)

Here's a snippet:

Minthara noticed the distraction and wasted no time, rapidly closing the distance. Her weapons and a single smite—her weakest—were all she had left to save her from oblivion. She brought her mace down in a crushing blow, but the empty-eyed thing was faster. Her wrist was caught and snapped via a strength she knew the gnome did not possess, and the paladin dropped her mace and bellowed, “A Baenre does not go quietly!”  She plunged her longsword into Mara's belly halfway, holy fire searing through her blood. The drow should have known better than to expect her to scream at this point. It was as if the creature was immune to pain. Enough damage would stop anyone, however. She called her an iblith as she twisted her weapon.  Mara's left hand grabbed her wrist and pulled the blade into her all the way up to the hilt. Then she snarled in Minthara's face, intentionally dropped her own greatsword and clamped her right hand around the drow's throat. She pried at her fingers, every movement pouring hot pain into her broken wrist; she fought to free her other wrist, but the beast was too strong. After a moment, her knees buckled. As shadow encroached upon the paladin's vision, she stopped prying at the hand around her throat, snatched Mara by the hair and head-butted her with all her might.  It was enough to stagger them both—but more importantly—to separate them. Minthara backpedaled, braced her now free and bloodied longsword with both hands despite the screaming ache in her right wrist, and advanced, aiming for the gnome's heart this time. 

[licensetothrall]

The Long “Gale, Bye”: Chapter 7

Dead Gale Week is over, so the coast is clear for a miraculous return! Diner food is eaten, deals are struck, and ALL PLOT THREADS ARE DEFINITELY RESOLVED unless I missed any!

(Can you imagine how happy I was to learn there is a film noir from 1958 called "I Want to Live!"?)

I was heading towards a light. It was all very peaceful and serene. I could have sworn I could hear Mystra’s voice, calling to me. But then I heard another voice, a much more annoying one, and it said: “Don’t go towards the light, you bloody idiot!” There was an extremely sharp pain in my chest, as if I’d just been stabbed in the heart with a hypodermic needle. (I later learned this was because I’d been stabbed in the heart with a hypodermic needle.) Agony rushed through my nerves and awareness flooded my limbic system. Something ancient and reptilian in the back of my brain desperately wanted to stay unconscious and get back to that sweet, sweet light, but it was no good. I sat up straight and yelped in pain, then immediately coughed out a couple of lungs' worth of river water.  “It worked!” cried the annoying voice. “Withers, I could kiss you, you shriveled up fossil!” “I would prefer that thou abstain,” said a second voice, this one sounding incredibly aged.

Gods bless @galemustdie and @kanaewit for helping inspire this.

Read more!

[knightofbhaal]

Inspired by a conversation I had with @thebearmord months ago, here’s is my very late entry for @galemustdie week: death by “snu snu.” I’ve never written something like this before, please heed the tags.

Unusual Research

Gale/Syryth | Rated E | Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions of Violence | Tags: Monsterfucking, Blood and Gore, Anal Fisting, Anal Sex, Multiple Orgasms, Organs, The Dark Urge Slayer Form, Omorashi, Implied Necrophilia, Size Difference, Temporary Character Death, DD:DNE

Summary:

The Slayer is simultaneously a source of intellectual curiosity and erotic fixation, a dangerous convergence of things for Gale in particular.

(He hasn’t seen the Slayer’s genitals yet. When he’d asked about it, Syryth pressed two fingers together, then split them at the middle knuckle. It’s like this.)

[mustardsprite]

GALE MUST'VE DIED 65 DEATHS

more stats below the cut

bless u @galemustdie

[galemustdie]

The deadication here is commendable.

[gortashsrighthand]

Gale must die: the compilation

With @galemustdie coming to an end, I figured a little post with all of them together could be handy. I had a ton of fun this week, trying out different styles of writing and looking up different things about Mystra and the Weave.

I also don't hate Gale, I find his character super interesting so this is done with affection.

Day 1: Consume Prompt: Orb Torture

The hubris always came before the fall. His hand clasping at his chest. The magic taking a hold of him, not like he could usually compose it.

Day 2: Mal'ai Prompt: Poisoned

Poisons lend themselves to more subtle uses, to be used and be undetected. And wizards have always been particular susceptible to them, as their health is as flimsy as a piece of parchment. 

Day 3: The Weave Prompt: Weave Death

The Weave had been his life, a presence that had been all around him from the moment that his mind had been able to hold memories. It had been his to compose like music notes in a song, like an everlasting dance that he could lead.

Day 4: It was me Prompt: Kidnapped

Sage Gale of Waterdeep, the hero Gale of Waterdeep, the wronged Gale of Waterdeep, the brilliant Gale of Waterdeep. That is how you know him right? How you praise him and his character, how accomplished he is. 

Day 5: The Curse of Thay Prompt: Cursed

It had just been a book. It had always just been a book. It had started with just a book.

Day 6: The Death of the God Prompt: God is dead

Gods die. It shouldn't be a surprise, how many Gods have been killed before by mortals? Cyric is just one example, first as a mortal slaying Bhaal and later Mystra. Still, the foundations of the Realms shake when a God dies, there is always something that happens.

Day 7: The Wrong End Prompt: Came back wrong

Fear and panic cut through him like a dagger. His heart was pierced with the frenzied feelings.

[patheticfangirl]

For the final day of Dead Gale Week, I present a BG3/Skyrim crossover no one asked for, featuring a dommy beacon and a submissive orb.

A New Hand Touches the Beacon

[jbenn656]

Dead Gale Week

Day #6: God is Dead

The party infiltrates the House of Hope — and Gale learns what happens when you die in front of a cleric of Oghma who loves you.

“Go!” Jaheira bellowed, as the Spectators’ many eyes swung round to them. Karlach leapt for a section of broken platform bridging the chasm as Tamsin swore and cast Dispel, its protective ward rippling outward across her armor.

Gale hung back, counterspelling the imps that had awoken from their posts to reinforce the Spectators. One that had been advancing on Tamsin reeled from its own eldritch blast turned back on it; she promptly waved it to sleep and grinned over her shoulder at Gale.

He winked at her, then flicked a volley of arcane missiles at another imp. Below, Karlach and Jaheira confronted the first of the Spectators, overrunning it; its center eye spiraled furiously, committing them to memory.

Gale smiled to himself; they were winning. Astarion and Lae’zel would arrive with the Orphic Hammer soon, and then—

Read the rest here!

[gortashsrighthand]

Fear and panic cut through him like a dagger. His heart was pierced with the frenzied feelings. The realisation of her absence that had made everybody reel, that made everyone afraid. It couldn't be, she couldn't be gone.

Read The Wrong End on AO3.

Day seven of @galemustdie : Came back wrong

[nivasichakano]

The Last Refuge

My contribution to @galemustdie, for the prompt: God is Dead.

Hundreds of years after the Battle for Baldur's Gate, a lonely vampire is paid a visit by an ex in need. (Tags: major character death, implied suicide, angst, humor, exes, bittersweet ending)

🖤

Astarion is in the middle of hunting when Gale Dekarios ruins his life for a second time.

His target isn't hugely important, as far as marks go. Some serial killer who's been giving The Watch the runaround. Astarion wouldn't have bothered taking the job tonight, but he was bored and peckish, so why not? It isn't as though he has any friends to visit. Any paramours waiting for him to slip into the sheets. Any partners eager to welcome him home and hear about his night.

It's been a long time since he's felt anything like that at all. Anything like love.

So here he is instead. A payday and a bite to eat. It's about as good as life gets these days. Read the rest on AO3!

[patheticfangirl]

If I had a nickel for every time I've written Astarion driving a Cybertruck, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it's happened twice.

For Dead Gale Week, Day 6: God Is Dead...

A Collision of God and Sin

[gortashsrighthand]

Gods die. It shouldn't be a surprise, how many Gods have been killed before by mortals? Cyric is just one example, first as a mortal slaying Bhaal and later Mystra. Still, the foundations of the Realms shake when a God dies, there is always something that happens.

It shouldn't be a surprise that when a new God ascends, there is the same reaction. Baited breaths to see what will change because what will the outcome be. You know what happened, it's why you asked for this tale. The story has already been set in stone, maybe it was already decided before it happened.

Read The Death of the God on AO3.

Day six of @galemustdie : God is dead

[galemustdie]

[patheticfangirl]

For Day 5 of Dead Gale Week, I present a stupid little short about Gale and the Sentient Amulet. Rated M. Genfic.